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‘Fellow Travellers’ in Spanish Visual Print Cultures of the Transition: The Case of Trocha. Cuadernos Mensuales del Colectivo de la Historieta (1977–1978)

Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio (2020) ‘Fellow Travellers’ in Spanish Visual Print Cultures of the Transition: The Case of Trocha. Cuadernos Mensuales del Colectivo de la Historieta (1977–1978). Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, . ISSN 2474-1604. E-ISSN 2474-1612. (doi:10.1080/24741604.2020.1825134) (KAR id:71027)

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Abstract

This article focuses on the self-managed publication TROCHA. Cuadernos Mensuales del Colectivo de la Historieta, the work of a collective of twenty-six comics professionals who came together to give voice and visibility to the profession and to propagate a type of comic that was adult, responsible and critical. Through an examination of the publication’s history, its members and its contents, the article maps the networks and creative alliances coalescing around TROCHA in order to trace the interconnectedness of the collective with contemporaneous visual print media. It also examines the ways in which contributors to TROCHA, aligned to left-wing ideologies, engaged with the ‘here and now’ of the Spanish Transition to Democracy in a critical—albeit ephemeral—form. The individual case study serves to explore broader zones of production encouraged by collective experience and by shared cultural practices, with a view to shedding light upon a visual culture of the Left.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/24741604.2020.1825134
Uncontrolled keywords: Adult Comics, Print Media, Creative Networks, Spanish Comics Cultures, Magazines, Transition to Democracy, TROCHA
Subjects: P Language and Literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Antonio Lazaro-Reboll
Date Deposited: 14 Dec 2018 13:10 UTC
Last Modified: 08 Apr 2022 23:00 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/71027 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1356-5054
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